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Banished |OT| Its like SimTown, but by one guy instead of Maxis, oh and its great
- Thread starter Mengy
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It really is like playing Dwarf Fortress all over again in some respects
So I don't like wasting space so I've been putting small fields and orchards around... but I think that might ultimately be kind of inefficient since I can't rotate farmers between small plots. Wish there was some other stuff I could put in, just aesthetic stuff. Whelp, wait for mod tools I guess.
So I don't like wasting space so I've been putting small fields and orchards around... but I think that might ultimately be kind of inefficient since I can't rotate farmers between small plots. Wish there was some other stuff I could put in, just aesthetic stuff. Whelp, wait for mod tools I guess.
Reaching 400 settlers, started some large constructions works, thinking this game is fun, pretty addictive and winters starts when suddenly TORNADO. Lost over 50 settlers and my first expansion lies in ruins, thank god I have 10k food and 1.2k of firewood otherwise I would be having a hard time. Time to fix the damage.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
Banished is DRM free except for the Steam version, which uses Steam as DRM. For some reason that German storefront page is incorrect.
The large map is huge, my goal is to build a town that fills an entire large map, but dear Lord that is going to be one HUGE town. And it's going to take forever. But that's good, I like a challenge. After an entire night of playing my village is only up to about 70 people. I want to grow faster, but I need more food sources first. And another forester lodge, my firewood supplies keep trending low by the end of each winter.
How do you put out fires? Ironically in my 9th year, with things a booming, raking in crazy amounts of food, my mine and quarry doing OK but not great though, only had like 4 people on each, but everything else doing quite well one of my houses caught fire. The one right next to the well... And then the house next to it caught fight, and the trading post, then the next house and the next, and then the market, and then the school house.
And then they all burned down and the fire stopped. Which is a miracle since I have a very tight town center and I could have easily also lost my main barn, seamstress, blacksmith and woodcutter and another house or two and it was early autumn.
Also yeah I have a child shortage for real. I just built 6 new houses but I think it might be too late for my town since most people are 40+ at this point and I only have like 5 kids.
And then they all burned down and the fire stopped. Which is a miracle since I have a very tight town center and I could have easily also lost my main barn, seamstress, blacksmith and woodcutter and another house or two and it was early autumn.
Also yeah I have a child shortage for real. I just built 6 new houses but I think it might be too late for my town since most people are 40+ at this point and I only have like 5 kids.
I think you need a Well to fight fires.
I have one, it was right next to the house that caught fire.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
Mines can produce either iron or coal, but you need to build quarries in order to harvest stone from underground. They both require lots of workers to make anything worthwhile though, so in the beginning it seems much better to just strip the surface stone and iron completely away in the immediate areas.
With the lack of children in a village, yeah you need housing space for families to move in to and have children or they will just live at home in a full house until they get too old to have kids. And if it gets exaggerated too much then you can find yourself in a position of having a very elderly town where everyone is too old to have kids.
Prototype Viktor
Member
Dying by salvation is dying by old age in my settlement! Your too old because you eat too much now heh
So I had so much blast with Banished today! (Thank god, I had the day off)
I decided to start a new game with Medium setting today. I didn't like the idea of starting with many more families, but I liked the fact that it came with a Storage Barn and a Stockpile, so that sort of helped me with doing the lay-out of the city.
I'm still trying to balance efficiency and aesthetics, but the more I play the more I am able to balance the both. I still made a lot of mistakes here and there though.
Spring 6:
I also placed some by my Trading Outpost:
I still don't have a lot of seeds in my bank so I've been waiting up/saving up for some more seeds.
EDIT: Holy shit, this is number 1 in Steam? Good job, Luke!
I decided to start a new game with Medium setting today. I didn't like the idea of starting with many more families, but I liked the fact that it came with a Storage Barn and a Stockpile, so that sort of helped me with doing the lay-out of the city.
I'm still trying to balance efficiency and aesthetics, but the more I play the more I am able to balance the both. I still made a lot of mistakes here and there though.
Spring 6:
I found out that orchards are a good way of making your town look aesthetically pleasing, so I decided to place that just in front of the houses by the quarry to make the site look less ugly.
I also placed some by my Trading Outpost:
I still don't have a lot of seeds in my bank so I've been waiting up/saving up for some more seeds.
EDIT: Holy shit, this is number 1 in Steam? Good job, Luke!
Prototype Viktor
Member
He should really thank EA for fuhing up SimCity as he got a lot of coverage from SimCity reddit last year
PsychoSoldier
Banned
He did a pretty excellent job getting the game into the hands of a bunch of different youtube people as well. Quill's and Arumba's playthroughs practically sold me on the game and I'm glad they did as I love it so far.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
Yeah, I knew the game was going to sell decent but I'm glad it's doing as good as it is. It's well deserved, as the game is fantastic. My new region in Simcity 4 is going to have to sit idle for a long time I'm afraid, as this game completely scratches that city building itch that only SC4 has been able to satisfy for many years now.
I always thought it would sell as much, but over a long period through word of mouth. Apparently, this was well-known enough to actually make it number 1 to Steam. I hope that the momentum will continue and this will be considered a classic.
Yep, Luke has to thank EA for fucking up SimCity. If Maxis had not screwed up SimCity, this wouldn't have been as popular. Also, the fact that only one guy made this was already marketable enough. I wouldn't normally buy this game at launch, but I did because I just wanted to support Luke.
In other good news, Luke can probably hire a few more artists/developers in to his team!
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
Very cool. Dean Hall, the creator of DayZ, made a comment about Banished where he states that he aspires to create a game as focused and awesome some day:
https://twitter.com/rocket2guns/status/436199823025242113
Dean Hall said:
https://twitter.com/rocket2guns/status/436199823025242113
Damn.
What an amazing compliment.
I wish as much success for Luke as Dean Hall has seen.
Were you producing firewood? If I understand the mechanic properly, lack of coats make your workers less productive as they have to come in out of the cold after a short time, while lack of firewood causes them to eventually freeze to death.
Rocket is really great for the community. He pretty much never stops complimenting other devs on their work.
And agreed, I hope this is working out well for Luke. Almost 17,000 people playing on Steam right now, and I'm sure there were at least a couple thousand sales through the humble store or wherever else. I really hope he makes enough money to keep designing full time, as he's obviously got a knack for it.
Caesar III
Member
A friend of mine joked about me and this game via trillian '"c3 now owns Banished" in 3, 2, 1...' - I checked out the Store Page - Damn, he was right 
Will try asap, weekend is not too far away. This is really looking good. I'm happy I Luke is on the top @ Steam right now.
Will try asap, weekend is not too far away. This is really looking good. I'm happy I Luke is on the top @ Steam right now.
That's exactly right - clothing means you stay warmer for longer, but you will need firewood either way.
shykyoichi
Member
Two things to check before winter: do I have enough firewood and do I have enough food to survive for the rest of my life? If not change priority to these. Also tools improve the efficiency of work, I literally went from doing well to barely surviving winter due to having no tools available.
Neuromancer
Member
So I had people gathering stone, and now for some reason every person in the village just about has this stone tool icon over their heads. Like people with other jobs like fishermen, hunters etc. Anyone know what I can do to get rid of that icon, its very annoying.
So I had people gathering stone, and now for some reason every person in the village just about has this stone tool icon over their heads. Like people with other jobs like fishermen, hunters etc. Anyone know what I can do to get rid of that icon, its very annoying.
You're out of tool, which will make your villager less productive working without tool. Build a blacksmith to produce tools (iron tool = log + iron)
Also, if anyone is using multiple monitors, the borders don't appear to actually be fixed properly so the mouse can just move straight out of the screen. It's not game breaking or anything (though it stops mouse map scrolling) but it is a little irritating.
I might try a hard large map and see how far I get. I think I have some better ideas...
I might try a hard large map and see how far I get. I think I have some better ideas...
If you go into options and select 'Clip mouse to window' it should solve this.
Neuromancer
Member
Anyone else find the Rock Paper Shotgun 'review' to be really harsh?
Ahhhh that makes sense, thanks. I have a blacksmith but not enough logs it seems.
Oh, rad. If you start the game with the mouse off-monitor it refuses to recognise it, but you can solve that by alt-tabbing out.
Also, the town on the main menu is your town! That's sweet.
TatteredHat
Member
I'm really glad that I decided to put down a Town Hall, all that additional information regarding production is so useful.
This is a great game, and it boggles my mind that it was all made by one person.
This is a great game, and it boggles my mind that it was all made by one person.
I'm pretty sure he left his job to work full time on this game a couple years ago, but I could be wrong.
tokyo slim
Banned
No Man's Sky?
Can't speak for quarries but at mines they leave the resource outside then carry it to the stockpile place.
TekGryphon
Banned
You're royally screwed - time to restart.
I did some visual comparison of working with a tool and without. A guy with a tool cuts down a tree in two cuts. A guy without a tool takes a dozen cuts.
Your entire village is now working at 1/6th normal output. Even if it's not a clean transition to other trades, it's a safe bet working tool-less is at LEAST 1/4th as effectively, and more likely 1/5th.
TekGryphon
Banned
The two problems I have with this game are housing and food consumption, and it probably goes without saying.
1. Large maps are useless at the moment because you can't control where your people live. The only efficient way to handle late game housing is to put a large residential cluster in the center, serviced by a well-staffed market, and radiate outwards. If you try to expand too far in any one direction you're going to hit a productivity wall as your people spend too much time walking back and forth. Stone roads mitigate the travel time, while steel tools and leather jackets reduce the time you're guys spend walking back, but you still hit that wall.
2. Food consumption is just insane. These people are consuming absolutely monstrous quantities of everything. The game should be billed as a starvation simulator with how these people consume.
1. Large maps are useless at the moment because you can't control where your people live. The only efficient way to handle late game housing is to put a large residential cluster in the center, serviced by a well-staffed market, and radiate outwards. If you try to expand too far in any one direction you're going to hit a productivity wall as your people spend too much time walking back and forth. Stone roads mitigate the travel time, while steel tools and leather jackets reduce the time you're guys spend walking back, but you still hit that wall.
2. Food consumption is just insane. These people are consuming absolutely monstrous quantities of everything. The game should be billed as a starvation simulator with how these people consume.
